by Sarah Green | Mar 27, 2017 | Student Issues
Video games are often seen at odds with schoolwork, even as something which can get in the way of getting good grades. But a recent study shows that playing video games can actually help some students deal with poor test scores. John Velez, a professor at Texas Tech,...
by Sarah Green | Mar 22, 2017 | News, Student Issues
According to a study performed by doctoral student Mona Moisala at the University of Helsinki, media multitasking is related to struggling to pay attention. The operative word here is related, as her research hasn’t made a clear connection yet. Moisala used functional...
by Sarah Green | Mar 20, 2017 | News, Student Issues
The question of whether media depictions of violence, whether in video games, movies, TV shows, narrative, or comic books, is an old one. It is a question that concerns many different people, from parents to teachers to politicians. And it is also a question that...
by Sarah Green | Mar 17, 2017 | News
Typically, people applying to law school have to sit for the imposing LSAT (Law School Admission Test), a standardized test formulated to predict success in law school. However, Harvard Law, one of the nation’s most elite law schools, will accept scores from the GRE...
by Sarah Green | Mar 15, 2017 | News, Teacher Issues
California is facing a drastic teacher shortage. According to a survey of 211 school districts in that state, 75 percent reported having a shortage of qualified teachers for the 2016-17 school year. Eighty percent said the shortages have gotten worse since the 2013-14...
